Corporate History
| 2007 | July | Victor Company of Japan, Limited (JVC) and Kenwood Corporation (Kenwood) entered into an agreement on a capital and business alliance |
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| October | JVC and Kenwood established the technology development joint venture J&K Technologies Corp. (Later renamed J&K Car Electronics) | |
| 2008 | October | JVC and Kenwood established the joint holding company JVC KENWOOD Holdings, Inc. through a stock transfer (JVC KENWOOD’s shares were listed on the First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange) |
| 2009 | December | Launched the MDV-313, the first car navigation system for which the same JVC and Kenwood platform was adopted (Photo 1) |
| 2011 | February | Launched the MDV-727DT and MDV-626DT, first-generation Saisoku-Navi devices that achieved high resolution and high-speed response |
| August | JVC KENWOOD Holdings, Inc. changed its name to JVCKENWOOD Corporation | |
| October | Completed an absorption-type merger of its three subsidiaries: Victor Company of Japan, Limited, Kenwood Corporation, and J&K Car Electronics Corporation | |
| 2013 | June | Converted Shinwa International Holdings Limited (now JVCKENWOOD Hong Kong Holdings Ltd.), an in-car device manufacturing company in Hong Kong, into a consolidated subsidiary |
| July | Took over all of the shares of TOTOKU Nagaoka Corporation through an absorption-type corporate split from TOTOKU Electric Co., Ltd., and changed the corporate name from TOTOKU Nagaoka to JVCKENWOOD Nagaoka Corporation | |
| 2014 | March | Obtained 100% ownership of EF Johnson Technologies, Inc., a company focused on delivering mission-critical, digital P25 communications solutions to the North American market |
| September | Launched the NX-5000 series, the NEXEDGE series of multi-mode digital radio systems compliant with the P25 standard (Photo 2) | |
| December | Launched the KNA-DR300, a full HD dashcam that enables high resolution entered into the dashcam market (Photo 3) | |
| 2016 | March | Commenced a joint development of diagnostic instrument for the measurement of exosomes with Sysmex Corporation |
| April | Established JVCKENWOOD Public & Industrial Systems Corporation, aiming to expand the Professional Systems Business | |
| 2017 | March | Announced the development of EXOFIELD, an out-of-head localization sound field processing technology which enables reproduction and localization of the sound field of speakers in a listening room with headphones |
| March | Redefined the Victor brand to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Victor Company of Japan, Limited (JVC) | |
| 2018 | January | Acquired all the shares issued by Italy-based Radio Activity S.r.l., a developer and seller of digital radio relay systems that are compliant with Digital Mobile Radio (DMR), an international digital radio standard |
| January | Announced Progress and Revision of the Mid-to Long-Term Management Plan Vision 2020 launched in 2015 | |
| May | Acquired all the shares issued by Germany-based Rein Medical GmbH, a developer and seller of Operating Room (OR) imaging solutions | |
| October | Established Creative Nanosystems Corporation, a company that develops and manufactures IVD biodevices using micro and nano-fabrication technology, jointly with Sysmex Corporation | |
| December | Concluded agreement for a share acquisition and a capital and business alliance with Tait International Ltd., a professional radio communication systems company in New Zealand | |
| 2019 | January | Provided JVCKENWOOD's dashcam with communication capabilities to "Mimamoru Kuruma no Hoken," an insurance product jointly launched by Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance and Aioi Nissay Dowa Insurance |
| April | Commercialized a security service for drivers that uses dashcams with communication capabilities for Grab, Southeast Asia’s top car-hailing service | |
| 2020 | January | Provided JVCKENWOOD’s dashcam with communication capabilities to F-dora, a telematics insurance service for fleet contracts by Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance |
| 2021 | May | Formulated the New Medium-Term Management Plan VISION 2023 with fiscal 2021 as the starting year |
| 2022 | April | Moved from the First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange to the Prime Market due to a revision of the Tokyo Stock Exchange's market classification |
| 2023 | April | Formulated the New Medium-Term Management Plan VISION 2025 with fiscal 2023 as the starting year |
Photo 1. MDV-313
Photo 2. NEXEDGE NX-5000 series
Photo 3. KNA-DR300
